Criminology category: 4273 books
by Yvonne Jewkes
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This book is concerned with the media's role in everyday life, power relations and the construction of masculine identities in the context of prisons. It is based upon unique research into the nature, impact and consequences of a situation where most prisoners in English prisons have access to some...
Prostitution in the Community
Attitudes, Action and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Prostitution often causes significant anxiety for communities. These communities have been known to campaign against its presence in ‘their’ neighbourhoods, seeking the removal of street sex workers and their male clients. Although research and literature has begun to explore prostitution from...
Entryways to Criminal Justice
Accusation and Criminalization in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
How do societies decide whom to criminalize? What does it mean to accuse someone of being an offender? Entryways to Criminal Justice analyzes the thresholds that distinguish law-abiding individuals from those who may be criminalized. Contributors to the volume adopt social, historical, cultural, and...
International Police Cooperation
Emerging Issues, Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The globalization of threats and the complexity of international security issues represents a greater challenge for international policing in (re)shaping inter-agency interaction, and makes effective international police cooperation more necessary than ever before.
This book sets out to analyse...
Criminologies of the Military
Militarism, National Security and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
This innovative collection offers one of the first analyses of criminologies of the military from an interdisciplinary perspective. While some criminologists have examined the military in relation to the area of war crimes, this collection considers a range of other important but less explored aspects...
UN Peacekeeping in Africa
A Critical Examination and Recommendations for Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This timely volume explores the “dark side” of United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping in Africa: when rather than help establish a rule of law in the host country, they become perpetrators of crime. The work of the UN peacekeepers is generally comprised of police and military personnel, from countries...
Governance, Social Control and Legal Reform in China
Community Sanctions and Measures
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
This book outlines how community sentences and early release options are administered in China. Chen provides empirical insights into the emerging community sector of the Chinese penal system, and illustrates how Chinese criminal courts decide between imprisonment and community sentences. Drawing...
by Jacqueline L. Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
The illegal trade in endangered species is a worldwide problem that involves not only animals but also plants, and it contributes to troubling factors such as organized crime as well as the further decline of the earth's natural climate. This book explores the extensive endangered species illegal...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
There are enormous challenges in establishing policing systems in young democracies. Such societies typically have a host of unresolved pressing social, economic and political questions that impinge on policing and the prospects for reform. There are a series of hugely important questions arising...
by Christine M. Sarteschi
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
This timely reference examines the psychological and social phenomena of mass and serial murder, bringing scholarly depth to a frequently sensationalized subject. Its review of the literature features case studies of serial and mass murderers to expand on salient theories of evil, with biopsychosocial...
Analyzing Delinquency among Kurdish Adolescents
A Test of Hirschi’s Social Bonding Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Analyzing Delinquency among Kurdish Adolescents uses Hirschi’s social bonding theory to examine the mediating effect of social bonding on delinquent behavior among Kurdish teenagers, who were used as a case study to test the usefulness of this theory. In this study, participants were selected from...
Reintegrating Jihadist Extremist Detainees
Helping Extremist Offenders Back into Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This book seeks to understand the processes of reintegration of former Jihadist detainees, as well as the role that the police and other frontline professionals play in this process.
Over the past few decades the number of people who have been detained under the suspicion of terrorist activities...
Understanding Suicide Terrorism
Psychosocial Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
The book is a comprehensive compilation of articles by experts in the field of suicide terrorism from across the world and across disciplines with a focus on suicide missions. It provides an insightful perspective on suicide terror as a phenomenon and as a process, and suggests psychosocial pathways...
by Geoff Dean
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
This Brief provides a theoretical and conceptual development of a new Risk Assessment Toolbox (RAT) for the early detection of violent extremists. It is based on a neurocognitive perspective, conceptualized as ‘neuroplasticity-in-action’ arising from brain-based neural patterns expressed in...